As a leader do you find meetings to be an interruption in your day, or as an opportunity to exercise your leadership? In a recent coaching session with a group of pastors near Victoria, BC, Bill Hybels said, “You’d be amazed how much of my leadership I do in meetings.” Well, this week I found…
Leading Beyond Your Calling
Several years ago my dad served as an unpaid staff administrator at a medium-sized church near Vancouver, BC. Fresh from a top level corporate career, some of what he encountered on a church staff left him a bit puzzled as to how things work in the church world. For instance, on one occasion he had…
Equipping a New Kind of Prevailing Church
During our recent strategic planning process we came to a point where we had to call a “time out” and address the fact that something fundamentally had shifted in the local church in recent years. As a ministry we always have been, and always will be, about equipping leaders to build an Acts 2, “prevailing”…
The Power of Your Story
“If your story could be summarized on the back of a DVD case, would anyone want to rent it?” I listened to this challenge again from Donald Miller on a Willow Creek Defining Moments recording on my way home from Victoria, BC this weekend. According to Miller, in order for a life to be fully…
Q & A with Bill Hybels Pt 2
Last week The Leadership Centre Willow Creek Canada presented Bill Hybels in a coaching session with about 120 church leaders in Surrey, BC. After fielding questions on a wide range of church leadership topics, one question in particular caused everyone to lean forward in anticipation of Bill’s response. The question: “What advice would you give…
